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'His unspoken natural centre': James Tiptree Jr as the 'Other I'
Get PDFThroughout literary history, a number of women writers have taken on male nom de plumes. Critics and other observers have noted the ways in which these names have been adopted for pragmatic reasons: in order to provide women with avenues for publication that enhance their reputations as (male) writers, and protect their identities as (female) daughters, sisters, wives and mothers.
Alice B. Sheldon created James Tiptree, Jr in 1967. In this paper, I argue that Tiptree, or ‘Tip’ as he was known to his friends, was not merely a nom de plume. Rather, Tip was a fully realised identity—Alice’s alter ego, or ‘Other I’—a well-known and respected writer who maintained epistolary relationships with other writers, editors, publishers, and readers.
In Seymour Chatman’s, Coming to Terms, he writes that the act of reading is “ultimately an exchange between real human beings, [which] entails two intermediate constructs” (Chatman, 75). This paper examines the ways Tip’s identity, as revealed in his creative works and in his letters, disrupts the gender-normative structure of this ‘exchange’, particularly in terms of the assumed correlation between the gender of the Implied Author and that of the ‘real human being’ he is (mis)recognised as being
Cwbr Author Interview Deliver Us From Evil: The Slavery Question In The Old South
Get PDFInterview with Dr. Lacy K. Ford, Jr., Professor of History at the University of South Carolina Interviewed by Nathan Buman CWBR : I\u27m here today with Lacy K. Ford, author of Deliver Us from Evil: The Question of Slavery in the Old South. Professor Ford, thank you for joining me. Lacy K. Ford (LKF): I\u27m happy to be here
Great God o'er all to thee I cry, Oh listen to my prayer [first line]
No full textstrophicpiano and voiceTo Miss Abby Fay, as sung by her at St. Peter's.Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
130, Item 063aComposed by John M. Loretz, Jr., Organist of St. Peter's Church, Brooklyn, L.I. Words by J.M. Richards.[Abby Fay
Great God o'er all to thee I cry, Oh listen to my prayer [first line]
No full textstrophicpiano and voiceTo Miss Abby Fay, as sung by her at St. Peter's.Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
130, Item 063aComposed by John M. Loretz, Jr., Organist of St. Peter's Church, Brooklyn, L.I. Words by J.M. Richards.[Abby Fay
The cleaning of copper leach solutions by means of calcium carbonate
No full textThesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Metallurgy, 1926 [first author], and Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrochemical Engineering, 1926 [second author].Includes bibliographical references (leaf 20).by William Wraith, Jr., Thomas I. Dowling.B.S
Structure, dynamics, and thermodynamics of mismatched DNA oligonucleotide duplexes d(CCCAGGG)_2 and d(CCCTGGG)_2
No full textThe structures and hydrogen exchange properties of the mismatched DNA oligonucleotide duplexes d(CCCAGGG)_2 and d(CCCTGGG)_2 have been studied by high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance. Both the adenine-adenine and thymine-thymine mismatches are intercalated in the duplexes. The structures of these self-complementary duplexes are symmetric, with the two strands in equivalent positions. The evidence indicates that these mismatches are not stably hydrogen bonded. The mismatched bases in both duplexes are in the anti conformation. The mismatched thymine nucleotide in d(CCCTGGG)_2 is intercalated in the duplex with very little distortion of the bases or sugar-phosphate backbone. In contrast, the bases of the adenine-adenine mismatch in d(CCCAGGG)_2 must tilt and push apart to reduce the overlap of the amino groups. The thermodynamic data show that the mismatch is less destabilizing than the mismatch when flanked by CG base pairs in this sequence, in contrast to their approximately equal stabilities when flanked by base pairs in the sequence d(CAAAXAAAG-CTTTYTTTG) where X and Y = A, C, G, and T [Aboul-ela, F., Koh, D., & Tinoco, I., Jr. (1985) Nucleic Acids Res. 13, 4811], Although the mechanism cannot be determined conclusively from the limited data obtained, exchange of the imino protons with solvent in these destabilized heteroduplexes appears to occur by a cooperative mechanism in which half the helix dissociates
LOVE AND STRIFE IN WILLIAM GADDIS' "JR"
No full textJR may be broadly characterized as a novel about disorder. Jack Gibbs is the novel's preeminent authority on this subject. By focusing initially on Gibbs, I show how his preoccupation with disorder informs both his writing and his speech. I do this by observing Gibbs' futile effort to resume work on his book and by examining his tendency to quote Empedocles.Gibbs' allusions to Empedocles provide a context within which we can understand the way the human body and human speech are represented in JR. Empedocles' world is ruled alternately by two forces, Love and Strife. The function of Love is to unite, to make one out of many. The function of Strife is to separate, to disperse things without apparent design. In these terms, the disorder that pervades JR may be viewed as a manifestation of the separating power of Strife.In JR, both the human body and human speech exhibit the influence of Strife. Bodies are fragmented, reduced to separate or merely contiguous parts, and physical contact among characters is frequently hazardous. In a similar fashion, language is divided into competing modes of discourse, and signs are often arbitrarily separated from their referents. Examining instances of narrative description in JR, I show how the faction of limbs tends to generate instability and disorder. Analyzing the speech of various characters, as well as their statements about language, I show how the plurality of discourse promotes confusion and misunderstanding. In these respects, JR represents a world that is ruled by Strife.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-03, Section: A, page: 1058.Ph.D. American University 1980.Englis
Cwbr Author Interview: Jefferson Davis And The Civil War Era
Get PDFInterview with William J. Cooper, Jr. Interviewed by Christopher Childers Civil War Book Review (CWBR): You begin your latest book with the phrase Jefferson Davis by William Cooper, once again, of course referring to your 2000 biography Jefferson Davis, American. But why Jefferson Davis in the first place, what lead you to study this man? William J. Cooper, Jr. (WJC): I\u27ve been interested in Davis for a long time. When I was a senior in college..
Diane Cobb Cashman and Andrew Harriss, Jr.
No full textPhotograph of Diane Cobb Cashman and Andrew Harriss, Jr. at a "Cape Fear Adventure" Christmas party.
Diane Cobb Cashman (1938- ) is a prolific local author and researcher. She was a former president and longtime archivist for the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society. She was also involved in the incorporation of the Historic St. Thomas Preservation Society and served on the boards of the Bellamy Mansion Museum and Historic Wilmington Foundation. Andrew Harriss, Jr. (1898-1998) was a much decorated veteran of Word Wars I and II and was a recipient of the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. (See Harriss, Andrew, Jr.
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